Space

Forty-six more Starlink internet satellites launched at 9:44 a.m. EST (1444 GMT) Monday from Cape Canaveral aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. The rocket’s reusable first stage booster completed its 11th flight to space and landed on an offshore drone ship near the Bahamas.

The solar system around the closest star to Earth just keeps growing.

SpaceX launched nearly four dozen satellites and landed the returning rocket Monday (Feb. 21).

Northrop Grumman launched a cargo flight from Virginia’s Eastern Shore Saturday using an Antares booster with a first stage designed and built in Ukraine, a successful start for a mission to deliver food, experiments, and supplies to the seven-person crew on the International Space Station.

A fresh supply of 8,300 pounds of scientific investigations and cargo launched from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia at 12:40 p.m. EST on Saturday, Feb. 19, aboard a Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply spacecraft, and is now traveling to the International Space Station.

A plan for how NASA will dispose of the International Space Station makes no mention of preserving parts from the complex. It is not just an omission from a report: the agency says it has no plans.

Northrop Grumman is set to launch an Antares rocket and Cygnus cargo ship at 12:40 p.m. EST (1740 GMT) Saturday from Wallops Island, Virginia. The mission will deliver food, science experiments, supplies, and life support system hardware to the International Space Station.

Find out what’s going on at the International Space Station.

NASA will provide coverage of the prelaunch and launch activities of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) next weather observing and environmental monitoring system satellite.

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